The decisive moment in the outcome for the battle for victory came when Nico Rosberg retired from the lead on lap 29. His radio messages reveal that before the problem proved terminal his overriding concern was to avoid failing to finish entirely, and find a way of getting the car to the finish to collect some points.

OK, check the front-left corner, in terms of numbers. I had a little bit of touch with Hamilton’s wheel. Also, I will drive by close to the pit wall, so If you could stand out and have a good look. I don’t think it’s damaged, but if you could have a good look.

Chilton’s car was damaged in the Raikkonen accident and he came into the pits at the end of lap one, under the red flag.I know you’ve probably got a thousand things to worry about, but if this red goes on much longer, then obviously the race is going to go on longer and there’s more time for that rain coming at the rain. So maybe go hard, run long and hope for the rain? It’s one less stop, but it’s down to you.

You are going to do another start procedure before the start of this race. You’re gonna start behind the Safety Car, but you are going to do a bite-point find as soon as you fire up and then go strat mode five and then RS modes will be on and then you’ll launch off the grid.

That’s correct. So it’ll be start just like we did in… it was… yeah, Monaco. Start behind the Safety Car, we’ll go around, do a lap, the Safety Car will come in and then that is virtually lap two of the race – this is lap one of the race. So for info, don’t forget you can overtake from that Safety Car line.

While Rosberg put on mediums again at his first pit stop, Hamilton switched to the hards. Although hewas warned they would take a while to warm up his first full lap out of the pits turned out to be the fastest of the race.OK Lewis, this tyre has a warm-up slope on the outlap, so we suggest diff entry five for this tyre. Diff entry five.

So Max, for the race situation, because we were in the pit-lane we missed that extra formation lap, which put us one lap down to the field. So we are one lap down to Jules, we’ll keep pushing to the end, hopefully we can catch back up to Kobayashi and regain that position and we’ll keep pushing and take positions as other people go out. Sorry for the situation but you’re doing a great job, keep pushing.

Kobayashi is about 70 percent of a lap ahead. Kobayashi’s in turn four [The Loop] now. So we need to make that up to him, but he’s lapping much slower so we’ll see how we’re doing pace wise and he’ll hopefully be stopping again.

While Vettel pitted on lap 10 and had to make another pit stop to get to the end, Ricciardo’s first pit stop was on lap 15 and he felt able to make his tyres last until the flag.Daniel, do you think you can do 15 more laps? Do you think you can do 15 more laps on this set?

Vettel finally passed Alonso after another close encounter between the pair at Brooklands, which appears to be what he is referring to here.He did the same thing again! He can’t do that! If I don’t move out of the way, he’s launching me off the track!

While Vettel was complaining about Alonso, Alonso was complaining about Vettel.He takes the DRS thanks to the track limits at the last corner! He take the DRS out of turn five [Aintree] and out of turn nine [Copse]! Either way! What more I need to do?

Wow! We said this morning, Valterri, that was going to be fun, but I don’t know where you pulled that one from. That was absolutely unbelieveable! Great recovery by the whole team after difficult weekend, especially yesterday. But absolutely unbelievable drive. Well done!

Yeah, I know. I know. It’s incredibly Frustrating. I think for the whole weekend, we deserved it as well. But, never mind. P4 is a good result and, yeah. It’s been a nice day. So, Lewis won the race. Bottas had a very impressive race from where he qualified and was second. Ricciardo obviously just ahead of us third. We were fourth. Vettel and Alonso had a big battle and Vettel won that, so P5. Alonso P6. Kevin seventh. Hulkenberg eighth and the two Toro Rossos Kvyat and Vergne ninth and tenth.

Yeah, it was a tough old race. Strange with the different tyres. The variety of them was much better with us – I don’t know why that is. Just general grip. Less movement with the tyre – I guess that’s why.

We finished in P7. Pretty tough race. Obviously we had quite a bit of traffic and I think that maybe hurt our tyres a bit. But I think you did a good solid job. We’ll have a look and see if there’s anything else we can do better.

Vergne took a point having been 18th at the restart.OK Jev. Good job, despite the problems at the first start. Car in the points. Very good drive. Very good, solid drive.

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@zoomracing@atticus-2 From watching the onboard feed I got the impression Alonso was doing it more than the others. Given he was warned about it halfway through the race and continued to do it throughout his battle with Vettel I’d say he’s lucky not to have had a penalty.

I certainly find it hard to agree he was in some way hard done by for receiving an admonishment that turned out to be of no consequence whatsoever. I doubt the prospect of having a flag waved at him is going to put him or any of his rivals off doing the same in future.

Alonso to the press after the race: “We had even discussed with the team two laps before the battle when Sebastian went out of the pit if we retire the car because we had some aerodynamic problems.”
There’s nothing about that in the messages. How could they discuss it?

That discussion wasn’t broadcast. As has been noted here in the past we usually don’t hear that many messages involving Ferrari’s drivers, particularly given how popular they are. This race was a bit of an exception to that because we heard a lot of Alonso’s comments about Vettel.

I think JB would be the best possibile test driver, after he retires. He may go for commentator, which is fine, but you’ve got to admit his feedback is so enjoyable for us and surely it’s immensely appreciated by his engineers.

I doubt he would go back to test driving. ;) I hope he gets a commentator gig after retirement. He really is very well-spoken and obviously knows what he is talking about. He is charismatic and funny too. He would surely make for a great commentator… (He also has good chemistry with the BBC/Sky guys..)

Really impressed by how switched on Rosberg is, he’s really thinking about every possibility to score points, you can see how championship minded he is. Although the desperation is his voice was also clear to see. So was Hulkenberg’s, he was very unhappy with his car!

34 Gary Gannon Max Chilton So Max, for the race situation, because we were in the pit-lane we missed that extra formation lap, which put us one lap down to the field. So we are one lap down to Jules, we’ll keep pushing to the end, hopefully we can catch back up to Kobayashi and regain that position and we’ll keep pushing and take positions as other people go out. Sorry for the situation but you’re doing a great job, keep pushing.
34 Max Chilton Gary Gannon How far to Kobayashi?
34 Gary Gannon Max Chilton Kobayashi is about 70 percent of a lap ahead. Kobayashi’s in turn four [The Loop] now. So we need to make that up to him, but he’s lapping much slower so we’ll see how we’re doing pace wise and he’ll hopefully be stopping again.

From reading these all season it seems that the Mercedes pitwall is the only one that really “coaches” the drivers corner to corner. All the teams tell their drivers things like “your teammate is faster than you in sector two, your up in the others”, but only Mercedes seem to break it down further and give corner specific into at times. Also, “slower in for a faster exit” has become a regular message for Rosberg.

What a push over Alonso was..He demands the position immediately and asking the penalty to the other driver who was making less or same as alo’s mistake..
But in Media everyone is nice and giving hype about the samurai..he has the talent, but making him the great is bit overhyped..Seb is far far better than Alo.